This is the README.TXT file for the replication archive for Levendusky and Stecula, �We Need to Talk: How Cross-Party Dialogue Reduces Affective Polarization,� to appear, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge Elements in Political Science.  The code here allows you to replicate the analysis in both the main document and the supplemental appendix. All analyses for this project were done in R 3.6.0. levendusky_stecula_nes_replication.r: This is the R code needed to replicate the analysis of the 2008-2009 American National Election Study Panel Data. Dataverse could not ingest the NES data, so you will need to download it from the NES homepage at: https://electionstudies.org/data-center/2008-2009-panel-study/ levendusky_stecula_element_replication.r: This is the R code needed to replicate the analyses using our original experimental data. The data for this analysis are anonymized_data.tab. levendusky_stecula_article_only_replication.r: This is the R code needed to replicate the analyses in the supplemental appendix using the article only survey experiment. The data for this file are lucid_data_for_analysis.tab. 